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R. P. STRAGHAN 8a G.-HENSHAW;

CARD SCORING MAGHINE.

No. 289,162. I Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

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ROBERT PRICE STRACHAN AND GEORGE IIENSHAW', OF LONG RONV,

VICTORIA STREET, BRISTOL, ENGLAND.

CARD-SCORING MACHINE.

SPEGIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,162, dated November 27, 1883, Application filed November 22, 1881. No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT PRICE STRAOH- an and Gnonon Hnnsnaw, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Long Row, Vi ctoriaStreet, Bristol England, have invented certain new and useful improvements in machinery or apparatus for scoring or partially indenting or cutting through cards or thick papers, to facilitate their being folded or bent, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new or improved arrangements and combinations of mechanism or apparatus for scoring or partially indenting or cutting through cards or thick papers, to facilitate their being folded or bent; and in order that our invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into practice, we will proceed to describe the drawings hereto annexed.

The machine or apparatus consists of aflat plate, bed, or slab, A, Figures 1, 2, and 3, made of iron, marble, or other suitable material, above which is fixed a bar, B, parallel to the surface of the plate A. On this bar B slides a cutter slide or block, 0, carrying one or more knives or circular rotating cutters, D, which cutters can be adjusted for distance from the plate A or from each other. The head of the plate A of the machine is provided with a ledge or fence, E, against which the card can butt, and an adjustable side lay, F, is also provided, against which the side of the card may be set. The ledge E and the lay F constitute gages, and the latter is fastened to the plate or bed A by a thumb-screw, 0, passing through a slot, 0, whereby provision for its adjustment is afforded.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The card or other material to bescored is placed on the plate or bed A and adjusted by the headledge E and side lay, F, and, being held by the hand of the operator, or by other suitable means, the block, with its cutter, is passed over it, scoring the card to the depth to which the cutters are adjusted. By means of the headfence and side lay accuracy of position of the scoring is insured.

The knife may be formed of a piece of steel having a spring or resilient shank fastened by one screw, and adjusted by another screw, 8', the knife returning and keeping firmly against the screw s by its own elasticity, as shown at Figs. 4, 5, 6.

Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 7' illustrate an ordinary scorer worked byhand by means of the knob c. Figs. 5' and 6 illustrate a scoringmachine in which are employed several cutters. In these figures the slide 0 is represented as carrying a cross rod or bar, b, on which are adjustably secured blocks 0, which carry cutters 1). Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate machines adapted to be operated by the foot of the workman, or by other motive power, by means of pulleys.

In Fig. 8 the cutter-slide C is connected by a rod, d, with one end of a lever, G, fulcrumed at d, and the opposite end of said lever is connected by a rod, (V, with an arm, d, projecting upward from a treadle, H, which is fulcrumed at (1*. By depressing the treadle II by the foot the slide 0 is moved toward the left hand, and the treadle is returned, after depression, by either a spring, 6, or a counterbalanceweight, 6, both of which are here represented.

In Fig. 9 we have represented a rotary shaft,

f, carrying a fly-wheel, f, and which is operated by a treadle, H, through a rod, f G designates a lever fulcrulned at g, and connected with the cutter-slide O by a rod, 9. The Said lever is vibrated by a rod, 9*, which receives motion from a crank on the far end of the shaft f. The shaft f might be rotated by a belt passing round a pulley upon it.

Fig. lOrepresents a side view and a transverse section of a segmental head-ledge, useful in multiple scoring.

Fig. 11 illustrates an arrangement of rotary cutters applicable to our improved scoring machines. \Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the cutter-slide O, of the cutter D, having a spring or resilient shank fixed to the slide, and the set-screw s, for adjusting said cutter, substantially as herein specified.

2. In a machine forscoringcards or paper, the combination, with a bed or plate and a guide or guides parallel therewith, of a slide movable upon said guide or guides, a crossbar slide, and devices for vibrating said lever, and 10 carried by said slide, and two or more blocks thereby reciprocating said slide, substantially adjustably secured upon said "cross-bar, and as herein specified.

each carrying a cutter, substantially as specified ROBERT PRICE STRAOHAN.

y f 3. The combination of the bed or plate A, GEORGE HENSHAXX the guide-bar B, the cutter 0r cutters D, the W'itnesses: slide 0, fitting said bar, and carrying the cut- W. NEILsON FYFE,

ter 0r cutters, a lever, G, connected with said A. E. BEENEY. 

